Rat populations in cities are booming as the planet warms up
Global warming is helping rats thrive in major cities around the world, with Washington DC seeing the fastest growth in rats
DC's Rat Infestation Growth Leads Nation Due To Climate Change: New Study Shows Why
Climate change is fueling a surge in rat populations across major US cities, with Washington, DC, seeing the worst increase over the past two decades, a new study said.The study published by Science Advances on Friday,
Why climate change may be making your city’s rat problem worse
A new study is the first to link rising temperatures with booming rat populations in cities around the world. Rising seas, intensifying droughts, worsening floods — these are well-known effects of climate change, the consequences of pumping too much heat-trapping pollution into the air.
Another unwelcome consequence of climate change: an explosion of urban rats
Global warming is worsening droughts, making sea levels rise, and fueling deadly storms. Now scientists have a new problem to add to that list: Climate change is helping rat populations thrive in U.S.
More bad news for rat-infested cities: Climate change is making it worse
More rats: that’s the latest indignity that climate change is dumping on major cities around the world, including in Canada’s largest city, according to a new study from a group of global rodent and public health scientists.
Rats! Climate change is helping increase their populations in cities
Winters are getting warmer and shorter as the climate changes. That's helping rat populations grow in several U.S. cities.
As erosion and floods swallow buildings, Washington's coastal communities strain to adapt
Yonder covers tribal and rural communities on the coast of the Pacific Northwest that are taking action to survive ...
WA’s sunny days spell trouble for snowpack
One water manager described the situation — below-normal snowpack coupled with a statewide drought emergency — as "ominous." ...
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Trump is just getting started. What are climate activists supposed to do?
What will 'resistance' look like this time around? Organizers say they'll be peaceful, but nothing is off the table.
Study says climate change made conditions that fed California wildfires more likely, more intense
WASHINGTON (AP) — Human-caused climate change increased the likelihood and intensity of the hot, dry and windy conditions ...
US Treasury Department Withdraws From Global Regulatory Climate Change Group
"The U.S. Department of the Treasury's (Treasury) Federal Insurance Office (FIO) today notified the Network of Central Banks ...
How Tahlequah, her dead calf tell the story of climate change
Salmon are struggling to survive. So are the families of endangered southern resident orcas, with a population of just 73, ...
Senate confirms Zeldin to lead EPA as Trump vows to cut climate rules
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-controlled Senate on Wednesday confirmed Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection ...
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Climate change is affecting prime apple growing regions in US
Agriculture across the United States is facing significant challenges from climate variability and change, with specialty ...
USDA orders removal of climate change mentions from public websites
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has directed officials to remove content related to climate change from its public ...
‘Doomsday Clock’ moves closer to midnight amid threats of climate change, nuclear war, pandemics, AI
A science-oriented advocacy group says the Earth is moving closer to destruction. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists said ...