About 1 in 6 New Zealanders live with chronic pain. Psychologist Dr Rachel Zoffness believes that medical treatment of chronic pain often fails because it is based on a flawed model of how pain works..

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About 1800 years ago a powerful super-eruption of the Taupo volcano resulted in a plume of ash that coated lakeside areas in tens of metres of pumice and ash and a lava flow that spread up to 90 kilometres. Last year a volcanic alert for Taupo was issued for the first time.

During Australia's "Black Summer" of 2019-20 a bush fire nearly destroyed the farm where actress Rachel Ward and her actor husband Bryan Brown had been raising cattle for 33 years. This head-on confrontation with the climate crisis triggered Ward with a neighbour to pivot away from conventional agriculture practices and embrace regenerative farming.

From being assumed extinct, to a healthy population of over 500 birds, the resurrection of the takahe is an incredible story.