Friday will mark the second full week since an estimated 250,000 litres of crude oil spilled into the Atlantic Ocean from Husky Energy's SeaRose platform, located 350 kilometres southeast of St. John's.

UBC researchers say the population of monitored seabirds has dropped by more than 70 per cent since the 1950’s, and that’s a sign of big problems in our oceans.

Hundreds of birds have died and hundreds more are in care in the San Francisco Bay area.