Indonesia’s Mud Volcano Disaster: 20 Years of Ongoing Fallout

On the edge of a vast, pungent sludge lake in Sidoarjo, East Java, residents gathered this weekend to mark two decades since their lives were irrevocably altered. It has been 20 years since the earth opened on May 29, 2006, unleashing a relentless torrent of steaming mud that swallowed factories, destroyed at least a dozen … Read more