Science Apr 14 To lower its rat population, NYC considers birth control as a humane option By Maysoon Khan, Associated Press/Report for America, Cedar Attanasio, Associated Press
Nation Sep 14 Watch 5:04 What led to the rat population boom and how cities are responding Rats, the furry nuisance that once was a sometimes issue, have become a bigger problem over the pandemic years. Courtney Norris and Dorothy Hastings explore what led to the rise in the rat population. By Courtney Norris, Shoshana Dubnow
Nation Sep 11 Rats are on the rise. Here’s what cities are doing about it Much like it shook most everything else in the world, the COVID pandemic shifted where rats went to seek out their meals. As restaurants and businesses across the country closed suddenly, rats had to adapt to find food in residential… By Courtney Norris, Dorothy Hastings
Agents for Change Sep 10 Watch 7:04 How giant African rats are helping uncover deadly land mines in Cambodia From Angola to the former Yugoslavia, land mines are a lethal legacy of wars over long ago. Cambodia is among the most affected countries, with millions of buried explosives that kill and maim people each year. Now, an organization is… By Fred de Sam Lazaro, Sarah Clune Hartman
Politics Jul 31 Trump’s ‘rodent’ tweets ring true at Kushner-owned apartments in Baltimore Residents at properties owned by Jared Kushner's family real estate firm have complained about mold, bedbugs, leaks and mice. By Regina Garcia Cano, Bernard Condon, Associated Press
Jul 17 Are NYC rats disease ‘sponges’? Scientists want to track them to find out By Andrew Joseph, STAT Rats are commonplace in cities around the world, but they remain in many ways mysterious, including in the potential threat they pose to public health, experts say. Continue reading
Jun 09 Rats regret their decisions, study finds By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Regret, it turns out, is not just a human emotion. Rats regret their bad decisions too, a study in the journal Nature Neuroscience finds. And only a few of them learn from it. Continue reading
Mar 01 Watch New Orleans Struggles to Revamp Public Education Hurricane Katrina damaged more than 100 of New Orleans' 128 public schools and led to a state takeover of the district. As a result, schools, teachers and students have had to start from the beginning to improve the state of… Continue watching
Sep 12 Bush Defends "Rats" Ad Texas Gov. George W. Bush manned his defenses on the campaign trail today, after being accused of including a subliminal message in an anti-Gore ad. Continue reading