Mauna Loa in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island is once again Earth’s largest shield volcano. “Nature Geoscience has a really good press department,” Sager said. “The hook was that ...

Most oceanic plateaux are massive basaltic volcanoes. However, the structure of these volcanoes, and how they erupt and evolve, is unclear, because they are remote and submerged beneath the oceans.

Planet Earth is covered in hundreds of volcanoes, many of which will be erupting at any one time. Many of us only notice volcanoes when they are about to explode or disrupt our travel plans, but these ...