Brigit Katz

 

Brigit Katz is a freelance writer based in Toronto. Her work has appeared in a number of publications, including NYmag.com, Flavorwire and Tina Brown Media's Women in the World.

Well, that stinks.

Heading to the Beach? Beware the Fecal Bacteria

A new report found that more than 2,600 sites in the U.S. and Puerto Rico were “potentially unsafe” for at least one day in 2018

A baby croc is held up in front of the Turkey Point wildlife preservation area in 2008.

Why Florida Crocs Are Thriving Outside a Nuclear Power Plant

But is the Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station the reptilian utopia that it seems?

Judy Chicago at the 2017 Yes! Gala at Brooklyn Museum

Judy Chicago Retrospective to Look Beyond ‘The Dinner Party’

The largest exhibition of Chicago's work to date at the de Young Museum in San Francisco will highlight the diversity of the artist’s oeuvre

The newly identified American Pocket Shark was first discovered in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.

This New Shark Species Looks Like a Tiny Sperm Whale

The 5.5-inch-long <em>Mollisquama mississippiensis</em>—one of only two pocket shark specimens known to science—also glows in the dark

The European brown bear hasn't roamed Britain since the Middle Ages—and possibly even earlier.

Wolves and Bears Are Being Returned to a Rare Patch of Ancient Woodland in Britain

The Bristol Zoological Society is launching an animal exhibit that will see the predators share a U.K. habitat for the first time in 1,000 years

Condor 409, pictured here, is the mother of the 1000th condor born since a breeding program was launched to save the critically endangered species.

The California Condor Nearly Went Extinct. Now, the 1000th Chick of a Recovery Program Has Hatched.

“When we confirmed it…it was just this feeling of overwhelming joy,” one wildlife expert said

The Charles Dickens Museum Acquires ‘Lost’ Portrait of the Author as a Young Man

The 1843 painting by Margaret Gillies surfaced at an auction in South Africa in 2017

Beachgoers on St. Simons Island sprang to action on Tuesday.

Georgia Beachgoers Help Save Pod of Stranded Pilot Whales

All but three of the animals that swam too close to shore made it back to the sea alive

The Bent Pyramid of Snefru in the Dahshur Necropolis.

Egypt Opens Its ‘Bent Pyramid’ for the First Time in More Than 50 Years

The pyramid may represent an important step in a pharaoh’s quest to build the ‘perfect’ pyramid

This Street in Wales Is Officially the World’s Steepest

Ffordd Pen Llech, a winding road in the historic town of Harlech, has claimed the Guinness World Record—but not everyone is happy about it

Alan Turing Will Be the New Face of Britain’s £50 Note

Persecuted at the end of his life, the British mathematician and code-breaker is now widely admired as a father of computer science

Great Blue Heron

Audubon Photography Award Winners Show the Breathtaking Beauty of Wild Birds

The 10th installment of the competition featured two new categories

Nina Simone&#39;s childhood home in&nbsp;Tryon, North Carolina

Nina Simone’s Childhood Home Is Under Threat. This Campaign Aims to Save It

The National Trust is hoping to preserve the North Carolina house where Simone first learned to play piano

A reconstruction of Elektorornis chenguangi, showing the possible probing function of the elongated toe.

This Prehistoric Bird Had Weirdly Long Toes

Researchers think the newly described 'Elektorornis chenguangi' used its special digits to scoop insects out of trees

Apidima 1 and reconstruction.

This 210,000-Year-Old Skull May Be the Oldest Human Fossil Found in Europe

A new study could shake up the accepted timeline of Homo Sapiens’ arrival on the continent—though not all experts are on board

The historic shipwrecks of Mallows Bay-Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary provide habitat for birds and other wildlife.

New National Marine Sanctuary Will Protect Maryland’s ‘Ghost Fleet’

Hundreds of abandoned vessels have merged with the environment in Mallows Bay

You've goat a friend in me.

Goats May Be Able to Tell When Their Buddies Are Feeling Good or Baaad

A new study has found that the animals can distinguish between positive and negative vocalizations

Exterior view of the "Chicago Defender" building in the 1950s.

The 'Chicago Defender,' an Iconic Black Newspaper, to Release Its Last Print Issue

The publication will shift its focus to online content

Toxic Algal Bloom Forces Mississippi to Close All Its Mainland Beaches

Experts think nutrient-rich freshwater, diverted into the Gulf of Mexico during recent flooding, is fueling the algae overgrowth

View of the rebuilt walls of Babylon, a kingdom in ancient Mesopotamia, now located in the modern-day city of Hillah. The site of Babylon has been selected to be inscribed as a Unesco World Heritage Site.

Ancient City of Babylon Among New Unesco World Heritage Sites

Other additions include ancient metallurgy sites in Burkina Faso, Iceland’s Vatnajökull National Park and eight buildings designed by Frank LLoyd Wright

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