For 3 months a sea of hot mud has been gushing from the ground in Sidoarjo, East Java, 35 kilometres south of Indonesia's second largest city, Surabaya. The steaming mud pool is growing at an ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Nine years ago, a rice paddy in eastern Java suddenly cleaved open and began spewing steaming mud. Before long, it covered an area twice ...

Nine years ago, a rice paddy in eastern Java suddenly cleaved open and began spewing steaming mud. Before long, it covered an area twice the size of Central Park; roads, factories and homes ...

Mount Semeru, in East Java, Indonesia, has been on a high level active alert for several years. The eruption has left ...

Smoke and hazardous gas has emitted from the crater vent of a mud volcano in Indonesia's East Java province continually for nine years, initially swallowing 12 villages and displacing more than 13,000 ...

The eruption of the Lusi mud volcano in Indonesia was caused by drilling for oil and gas, a meeting of 74 leading geologists has concluded. Lusi erupted in May 2006 and continues to spew out boiling ...

For four months, millions of cubic metres of boiling mud have been flowing around the whereabouts of Porong; entire villages have already been submerged and 10,000 people displaced. Geologists have ...

Two years ago a mud volcano began erupting near Sidoarjo in East Java. As of August 2008, it was still spewing some 130,000 cubic yards a day into what is now a steaming lake of hot mud, 60 feet deep ...