(UPBEAT THEME MUSIC) www.able.co.nz Copyright Able 2023 - Kia ora, welcome to In Case You Missed It. Ko Tane toku ingoa. Time to tahuna te ahi with a look at what's been happening here in Aotearoa and overseas. Well, the World Scout Jamboree in South Korea wrapped up early this week with scouts first evacuating due to extreme heat. A looming typhoon was the final straw. The global heat wave is also continuing with temperatures over 40 degrees and wildfires in Portugal, Spain and Hawaii. And it's official ― July 2023 was Earth's hottest month by a wide margin. The European Climate Monitoring Organisation says the global figure for July was a third of a degree hotter than the record set in 2019. The bump is so big scientists are looking at whether other factors, in addition to global warming and El Nino, are playing a role, like the 2022 volcanic eruption near Tonga. We are definitely experiencing some extremes. Now, are you a fan of kaimoana? Well, people find it hard to grasp the idea that an abundance of kina could be a bad thing. But an exploding population of wild kina in some areas of Aotearoa New Zealand's kelp forest is turning the seabed barren, creating an imbalance in the ecosystem. - In any other sense, you think having heaps of kina is a good thing for our whanau, but it becomes destructive. It starts outcompeting everything else and causing major issues. - A collaborative project Kinanomics is exploring the viability of enhancing malnourished wild kina from impacted areas to produce kina roe for commercial markets. From kina to our beloved kiwi ― the number of reported kiwi deaths are just a fraction of what's happening out there, charity Save the Kiwi says. It comes after six kiwi were mauled by suspected roaming dogs in the Opua State Forest in the Bay of Islands in the past few weeks. The organisation says people need to keep a watchful eye on their dogs at all times and avoid taking them into areas where kiwi live unless it is necessary. News this week from the world of UFC ― the New Zealand fight takeover is set for Sydney in September. City Kickboxing in Auckland announced three of its fighters will appear in Sydney, with at least three more expected to be confirmed soon. Israel Adesanya will defend his freshly-recaptured title against the outspoken Sean Strickland as the main card for the UFC 293 Sydney event. Adesanya has a documentary film being released on September the 28th titled Stylebender, which featured at the Tribeca Film Festival in June. Which brings us to another New Zealand sporting legend. (TENSE MUSIC) This Week in history, back in 2012, one of our most iconic wahine athletes, Dame Valerie Adams, won her second gold at the London Olympics. However, she nearly had the gold stolen from her by Belarusian athlete Nadzeya Astapchuk, who initially won the gold in London, only to be disqualified after testing positive for a performance-enhancing anabolic steroid. Dame Valerie had been awarded the silver medal, but with Astapchuk disqualified, she was awarded her rightful gold medal in Auckland some weeks later. Dame Valerie Adams has won four world championships, four indoor world championships and three Commonwealth Games gold medals in addition to her four Olympic medals, two golds, one bronze and one silver. Ka mau te wehi. Now, families come in all different shapes and sizes these days. So let's take a look at what the modern whanau looks like in 2023. (DANCE MUSIC) What does your whanau know look like? Today, our family units are more diverse than ever. That's because our attitudes to relationships and family have changed over the years. Now we know that there are all kinds of ways to be a modern whanau. For instance, the traditional whanau unit ― a married mum and dad with a couple of kids. Or you might have two mums or two dads, and they don't even have to be married. Maybe you're from a single-parent whanau with one very busy parent. Or perhaps you're being raised by your grandparents or other whanau members. You might share your home with multiple generations of family like cousins, aunts, uncles and elderly family members. Or you may have been adopted into your whanau. In te ao Maori, we have something called whangai where a child is brought up by someone other than their birth parents, usually another whanau member or close friend. Some families don't have children because they can't have them or they choose not to. Some people just prefer to have fur babies. One of the most common types of whanau is the blended kind. Many marriages split up, and parents get remarried. This creates a blended whanau where two separate families merge into a new unit. Of course, blending of whanau involves tons of mahi to ensure everyone gets on together. You might even have two blended families to deal with as both your parents have new partners, and you split your time between them both. And that's a whole lot of whanau to deal with. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter what your whanau looks like, what gender your parents are, or whether you were adopted or whangai by relatives. The most important thing is that you're cared for and loved by the people around you ― your whanau. Ka tika. 10-year-old Auckland schoolboy Drake Zhu is proving himself to be an international Pokemon master ― so much so that Pokemon are flying him to Japan to compete in the Pokemon World Championship competition. - It's gonna be really competitive, and, like, it's gonna be a higher level than my usual events. - Well, good luck. And you gotta catch 'em all ― the flights... to Japan. Anyway, that's In Case You Missed It for this week. Thank you so much for joining me. We'll be back again next Friday. Have a great weekend. Hei kona.