In East Java, Indonesia, hundreds of miners face deadly smoke to mine sulfur, or "devil's gold." They risk respiratory illness and death to haul 200-pound loads of sulfur up crater walls.

A DEADLY volcano that spits bright blue lava contains the world’s largest acid lake – capable of melting human skin. Kawah Ijen, is a gargantuan volcano on the island of Java, ...

The name of the river translates to "bitter water" in the Javanese language. Kawah Ijen is also home to sulphur mines where miners risk their lives to extract precious sulphuric rock. These are ...

Photographer Philipp Aldrup was stunned by the dangerous practices at a sulfur mine in East-Java, Indonesia, where workers earn about $5 a day risking their health. But yet he was fascinated by ...

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When you’re in the mine, the sky is covered by gases. Day and night are confused. You feel suspended in time. Sunarto, 41 years old, carries a load of sulfur out of the Kawah Ijen crater.

NEW DELHI, Dec 24 (Reuters) - India is reviewing a decade-old $30 billion programme requiring coal-fired power plants to install equipment to cut sulphur emissions ...