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.
Growing rat populations are correlated with rising temperatures driven by global warming in at least 11 major cities across the world, according to the study. The cities seeing rat increases include Toronto, famously rat-prone New York City, and many other major centres like Washington, San Francisco and Amsterdam.
The study's authors say it's a wake-up call for cities to move away from a whack-a-mole approach to dealing with rodent complaints.
"I think every large city should have a dedicated team that focuses on nothing but rodents and the issues with rodents," said Jonathan Richardson, lead author of the study and an urban ecologist at the University of Richmond in Virginia.
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