“Krill are, by fact of life, living and molting and pooping and dying, and all that is very important to bring carbon from the surface ocean to the deep sea,” says Matthew Savoca, an ecologist ...

PHOTOGRAPH BY SHAWN MILLER “The really sad thing about this is that they’re eating plastic thinking it’s food,” says Matthew Savoca, a marine biologist with the National Oceanic and ...

Credit: J.J. Harrison Gabrielle Nevitt, an ecologist at UC Davis, and her former graduate student Matthew Savoca found that the smell of algae on marine plastic debris may be what attracts seabirds.