Australia suffers a mouse plague every ... setting up for an even more explosive outbreak next spring. Mice density data is from the March 2021 report of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial ...

Australia, right now, feels a little biblical. There was a terrible drought, then the worst bush fires ever recorded. A flood came next. Now it’s the turn of the mice. The scale of the mouse ...

FILE - In this May 19, 2021, file photo, mice scurry around stored grain on a farm near Tottenham, Australia. A mouse plague that has ravaged vast swathes of eastern Australia has forced the ...

“The only good mouse is a dead mouse,” Australia’s deputy prime minister declared this week, as New South Wales stepped up its war on mice with a plan to poison the plague infesting large ...

Terry Klante emptying a mouse trap on his farm near Tottenham, Australia. He has fended off the mice with baiting and fencing but still keeps a nightly vigil.Credit... Supported by By Yan Zhuang ...

Mice scurry around stored grain on a farm near Tottenham, Australia, on May 19, 2021. A mouse plague that has ravaged vast swathes of eastern Australia has forced the evacuation of a prison while ...

In 2021, mice on a plastic sheet were used as a trap on Terry Fishpool's farm in the agricultural town of Tottenham, Australia. This year, mice are beginning to swarm again in New South Wales.

The current mouse plague echoes a relationship between the La Niña weather cycle and Australia’s native rodents that dates back hundreds of thousands of years. One hundred and sixty years before ...

A mouse thought to have been wiped out more than 150 years ago has been found by researchers on a western Australian island ... been a vital refuge for the mice, offering protection from ...