NewsWhy rats are overdosing in Vancouver’s Downtown EastsideRodents and other pets have been getting into their owners’ drugs, forcing community volunteers to play emergency vet
CultureA neuroscientist author blinds readers with scienceJay Hosking’s Three Years With The Rat is unsettling like Paul Auster, complex like David Mitchell—and a bit unwieldy
LifeHow cities are making our rats smarter and spiders biggerThe wildlife around us are evolving to adapt to life in the big city
GeneralNew York City has a plan for its rats: sterilize the femalesThere are a lot of rats in New York City and, as anyone who has ridden a NYC subway can tell you, the rodents like to make their...
NewsGood news, bad newsThe U.S. goes four years without a commercial airline crash and J. Lo finds a way around the Grammys dress code
CanadaRats: fuzzy friends or fiendish foes?Montrealers see them as a scourge; in B.C. they’re coddled house pets
LifeThe race to go rat-freeThe ‘parasite of man’ is to be eradicated as cities around the world vie to be the first to go rat-free
LifeRats: Agents of extinctionScientists now link rats to the destruction of more than 100 island species, from birds to shrubs