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 ...

The first scientific report into the causes and impact of Lusi, the Indonesian mud volcano, reveals that the 2006 eruption will continue to erupt and spew out between 7,000 and 150,000 cubic metres of ...

"If we establish how long the volcano will continue to erupt then the ... data will allow us to assess the area that will ultimately be affected by this disaster," Davies said.

A resounding vote of international petroleum geologists from around the globe concluded that the mud volcano was triggered by drilling of a nearby gas exploration well. This may have implications for ...

Heavy rains and torrents of hot lava and mud sliding down an erupting volcano on Indonesia's Java island have put search and rescue operations for more than a dozen missing on hold, officials said ...

Mud is still spewing from the ground in East Java, Indonesia, four years after a blowout on Lapindo Brantas’ nearby Banjar Panji-1 gas exploration well, writes Amanda Battersby. The mud has engulfed ...

A mud volcano on the Indonesian island of Java is collapsing, swallowing up more than 30,000 homes so far. Scientists blame a gas company for causing the eruption of sludge two years ago. Geologist ...

Rescuers were sifting through smoldering debris and thick mud in search of survivors a day after the highest volcano on Java island erupted with fury, killing at least 14 people with searing gas and ...

A video filmed from a helicopter shows villages blanketed in ash after the eruption of Mount Semeru in East Java, Indonesia. The volcano erupted on Saturday, throwing plumes of hot ash high into the ...

LUMAJANG, Indonesia — Rescuers were searching for survivors Sunday on the slopes of the highest volcano on Indonesia’s island of Java after it was rocked by an eruption that killed at least 14 people, ...

LUMAJANG, Indonesia — The death toll following the eruption of the highest volcano on Indonesia's most densely populated island of Java has risen to 13, with seven people still missing, officials said ...