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Explore Kawah Ijen in Indonesia, where blue flames light the night and miners face extreme conditions to harvest sulphur.

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. So why do ...

Climbing into the fiery mouth of Kawah Ijen volcano is like stepping inside Dante’s inferno, as one miner told the BBC. Looming 9,183 feet above sea level, this raging volcano has suffocated so many ...

image: The turquoise lake in the crater of the Kawah Ijen volcano looks serene and inviting. It also happens to be the world's largest acidic lake. The water in the crater lake has a pH less than 0.3 ...