{"id":229017,"date":"2025-01-31T20:20:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T20:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/hotter-cities-here-come-the-rats\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T20:20:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T20:20:36","slug":"hotter-cities-here-come-the-rats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/hotter-cities-here-come-the-rats\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotter cities? Here come the rats"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If your city is getting rattier, climate change may be partially to blame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an analysis of 16 cities around the world, those that saw the biggest temperature rises over the years also had more rat complaints over time<\/a>, researchers report January 31 in Science Advances<\/em>. Increased urbanization was also connected with more rat reports. The results suggest that higher temperatures may make rats \u2014 and the diseases they can spread \u2014 even harder to keep at bay.<\/p>\n\n\n