Rats thrive around humans, for good reason: They feed off crops and garbage and readily adapt to many settings, from farms to the world’s largest cities. To control them, people often resort to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This mountain lion, known as P-47, was found dead in Southern California on March 21, 2019, with rat poison in his system.

What happens next depends on several factors. Officials take action on widespread poison in US region — here's what's happening first appeared on The Cool Down.

While many view Los Angeles as a concrete jungle, there's another side of the city more akin to the wild. L.A. lies within a biodiversity hot spot, with ecologically rich habitats such as the Santa ...

Researchers have identified rodenticide in endangered California condors in recent years. Credit: Michael Macor/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images In humanity’s war against rats, other ...

Massachusetts lawmakers want to restrict a type of rat poison that is particularly dangerous to birds, pets and wildlife. One hawk spent fourth months recovering from eating a poisoned rat at Weymouth ...

The northern spotted owl has had many adversaries. Three decades ago it was loggers, whose forays into the remote forests of the Pacific Northwest threatened the shy creatures, which have zero ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. A bobcat that died last December in ...