Catching up with some of the past week's news, including new evacuations in Vanuatu, some new research on the destructive force of the Toba eruption and images of Bezymianny from space.

Well, I've now found myself with a volcano image I can even identify ... but its a stunner.

Lots of huffing-and-puffing from volcanoes around the world, all wrapped up neatly in this week's USGS/SI Volcano Activity Report.

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Eruptions at Galeras in Colombia have prompted evacuations and road closures. Meanwhile, the ash from Huila is likely helping coffee growers and the scientists drilling into Campi Flegrei in Italy don't want it to erupt either.

Part 1 of the Q&A from Dr. Boris Behncke of the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Catania.

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Take a whack at Mystery Volcano Photo #13!

So MVP #13 was apparently way too easy, so here's a bit more a challenge (I hope).

I'll try to stump readers again with a new Mystery Volcano Photo during this slow week in the world of eruptions.

The three Italian volcanoes are showing of increased activity, while a recent study suggests that living near Etna could be linked with thyroid cancer.

Mayon appears to be ramping up activity - which could lead to the evacuation of 300,000 people from the neighboring region.

The activity at Mayon is prompting more evacuations, can we predict the behaviour of the lava lake at Kilauea, Batur goes on alert and Roland Emmerich (he is no volcanologist).

Are we going to cause the Campi Flegrei to erupt and destroy Naples? Depends on what you read.

New images of Kilauea from space, Soufriere Hills' pyroclastic flows and lahars and things settling down at Anak Krakatau, all in this week's USGS/SI volcano update.

Piton de la Fournaise put on a brief show last night, producing two lava flows after a small earthquake hit the volcano earlier in the day.

Science used to be fascinating to the general public ... where did we go wrong and how do we fix it?

Either Eruptions readers are too smart or I'm too easy when it comes to the Mystery Volcano Photo ... So I'm trying to up the ante. Give it a guess!

Dr. Jonathan Castro, coauthor of a recent Nature paper on the ascent of magma at Chaiten in Chile, fields questions from Eruptions readers.

The Philippines might be headed towards another volcano-typhoon doubleheader, roads are no match for Kilauea and some new images of Chaiten and Shiveluch from NASA.