Environmentalists are on board with the eradication. The rat-occupied islands of Attu and Kiska will now become a different kind of battleground. Once the site of World War II fighting between ...

Seabird colonies on islands are highly vulnerable to introduced rats, which find the ground-nesting birds to be easy prey. But the ecological impacts of rats on islands extend far beyond seabird ...

This article is part of The State of Science, a series featuring science stories from public radio stations across the United States. This story, by Theo Greenly, was originally published on KUCB. For ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — On a desolate slab ...