Live from New York — it’s Rat-urday Night! A fed-up Brooklyn tenant battling a rat Crown Heights apartment has been live ...

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Their presence can lead to the spread of diseases and contamination of food ... Several factors have combined to fuel the rise of New York’s rat population. Construction projects and urban ...

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A new study suggests that bedbugs were the first urban pest, and their population thrived in that environment. For the ...

A study to look at why long-lived bats do not get cancer has broken new ground about the biological defenses that resist the ...

A Necropolis is a mere depository for dead bodies,” Douglass wrote. “Green-Wood,” on the other hand, implied “verdure, shade, ...