City officials are rolling out a new campaign to address a spike in rabid raccoons in several neighborhoods. Special vaccine baits are being placed in parts of Queens and Brooklyn ...

Rat czar Kathleen Corradi is leading the new initiative across multiple rat mitigation zones in NYC. They're called "rat ...

Mayor Eric Adams may have declared his Brooklyn home rat-free, but the war on rodents across New York City is far from over. FOX 5’s Richard Giacovas joined the city’s newly appointed Rat Czar, ...

that trains African giant pouched rats (Cricetomys ansorgei), one of the largest and longest-lived rat species. While domestic rats can typically live for two to four years, some of APOPO’s ...

One African giant pouched rat in Cambodia is making communities safer by sniffing out dangerous explosives—and he just set a record for his species. According to Smithsonian, the 5-year-old rat ...

The New York Mets’ number three prospect and Brooklyn Cyclones outfielder is in his first season with the Cyclones, the Mets’ high A affiliate of the South Atlantic League. Through eight games and 27 ...

"We applaud our WSSA member scientists, who work tirelessly across the nation to protect habitats from weeds and invasive plant species that threaten our native plants and ecosystems." Another ...

Trump officials have proposed changing a decades-old interpretation of a key word in the Endangered Species Act, which would make it much easier to log, build or drill for oil. By Lisa Friedman ...

Health officials found extensive evidence of rats on Gene Hackman’s New Mexico property during a hantavirus risk assessment test after the star’s wife was killed by the rodent-linked disease ...

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Moving to Brooklyn, New York, a city with a higher cost of living than the national average, can also be stressful. The average cost of hiring a mover in Brooklyn ranges from $2,503 to $7,063 ...

“This large male grabbed him in a bear hug. A violent struggle ensued," said John Tennant, a now-retired detective lieutenant with the New York City Police Department's Brooklyn North Homicide Squad.