“The Wipeout Gene,” published in Scientific American in 2011, was selected for the 2012 Best American Science and Nature Writing.
What I Eat, an absolutely gorgeous book by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio, describes 80 diets from around the world. They asked Bijal to adapt a feature she had written for New Scientist magazine for this book. Her essay, “The Agony and Ecstasy of the Calorie”, appears with others by Marion Nestle, Michael Pollan, Richard Wrangham, and Ellen Ruppel Shell.
Bijal contributed two chapters to State Of The Wild 2006: A Global Portrait of Wildlife, Wetlands , and Oceans. The first details newly-discovered wildlife species. The second reports important ocean news, from the decline of specific fisheries, the creation and impact of Marine Protected Areas, to the scope of the illegal shark fin trade, new CITES protections, and more.