Washington, D.C. officials have begun to use dry ice as a new method to combat the District’s growing rat population, according to Gerard Brown, the program manager of the D.C. Department of Health’s ...

John Stellberger knows how cunning rats can be. That’s why the president of EHS Pest Services pushed an unconventional method of controlling them: dry ice. Dry ice – solid carbon dioxide – melts and ...

Re: Dry ice can be used to eradicate rats, letter by Gord Ekelund, March 6. I wanted to flag some concerns with this letter about using dry ice to control rats. The letter states: “While the American ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --After halting the use of dry ice to kill rats last winter, city officials said Chicago has been given the green light to start up again, and the Department of Streets and Sanitation ...

Urban residents typically do their best to avoid rats. New York City exterminator Joseph Rodriguez seeks them out. He uses the handle of a shovel to shift the foliage in a neighborhood park, looking ...

Rats have taken over cities around the globe, but there's a certain mystique to a New York rat. Remarkable generalists when it comes to diet, rats in New York generally eat whatever they can find and ...