THICK, hot sludge burst through the earth’s crust in the middle of a city more than a decade ago. It hasn’t stopped flowing since. Heavy with cars and trucks, it connected the country’s second largest ...
On May 29, 2006, mud and steaming hot water squirted up in a rice field in Sidoarjo, East Java, marking the birth of the world's most destructive mud volcano. Stringer / Indonesia / Reuters / Corbis ...