New York City officials have found a new effective way to kill rats. The strategy involves pumping carbon monoxide directly into the rat burrows. Some rat researchers say the city should focus on ...

New York City's new rat-killing method has wiped out rats on a strip in the Upper East Side. The carbon-monoxide method kills the rats but doesn't address the underlying issues. Rat and pest experts ...

Mayor Eric Adams of New York City appoints former teacher, Kathleen Corradi, as the city's first director of rodent migration. Their mission is simple: kill rats. Good morning. I'm Michel Martin. You ...

New York lawmakers are proposing rules to humanely drive down the population of rats and other rodents, eyeing contraception and a ban on glue traps as alternatives to poison or a slow, brutal death.