Tuesday, June 25, 2019

As temperatures increase, so do rat populations

The warmer weather creeping into cities across America is cause for international concern, but there’s one group that loves it – rats. The impact of climate change on pests and disease is widely studied and cited as a reason to worry at the local level, but the rise in rat populations specifically is hard to quantify. While lab rats are studied ad nauseum, ‘wild’ urban rats and mostly taboo for the scientific community. Pest control workers and 311 hotline staff in cities like New York, however...

from Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building https://inhabitat.com/as-temperatures-increase-so-do-rat-populations
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