Environment

A leak in a massive nuclear waste storage tank at the Hanford Site in Washington state has expanded significantly. Thousands of gallons of radioactive waste leaked at the Manhattan Project-era storage tank over the weekend. The expanded leak was first detected after an alarm went off at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation on Sunday. On Monday workers were preparing to pump the waste out of the troubled area and try to determine why the leak became worse.

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The following shocking drone footage of the aftermath of Japan's earthquake cluster this weekend (from Thursday through Monday, more than 500 quakes shook the region) shows the scale of the damage wrought. As one comment noted, "it looks like a Godzilla movie," but sadly this is very real as Satoshi Matsumoto, associate professor at the seismology institute of Kyushu University, warned the ground underneath the island cracked unusually easily, which could allow one quake to cause others in a cascade, spreading them through a wider-than-usual area.

Poisonous water is causing a major health crisis in rural Bangladesh. Around 20 million people are suffering from what is being called the largest mass poisoning in history as they continue to drink arsenic-laced water, twenty years after the deadly toxin was discovered in the supply According to human rights watch the local governments have allowed the issue to be pushed to the back-burner, with nepotism and poor governance contributing to the current state of the water in Bangladesh.

Two aftershocks, one measuring a magnitude of 5.3 have hit Kumamoto prefecture in Japan, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS) The aftershocks followed just days after two deadly earthquakes struck the region, killing at least 42 and injuring more than 1,000 others. RT reports: A tsunami warning has not been issued, Japanese broadcaster NHK reported. The aftershocks measured 3.9 and 3.4 on the Japanese scale, according to the country’s Meteorological Agency. Each had a depth of 10 kilometers (6.2 miles).