Ten Things of Fry and Fly

A 13-year-old CEO is giving 10% of her profits to bee conservation/Me & the Bees

1. Mikaila Ulmer is the 13-year-old chief executive of Me & The Bees Lemonade, which is now stocked in more than 500 stores across the US.
2. In England, a teenager who attached uplifting messages to a bridge to help people facing a mental health crisis has helped save six lives, police said.
3. Malachi Neat's goal in life is to become a Royal Marine, but there's a problem - the 14-year-old from Coventry has arthritis in his eyes. He is one of about 12,000 UK children who have the condition.
4. Natasha Toffa uses Instagram to help women around the world who are stuck in abusive relationships. Strangers in vulnerable situations contact the 27-year-old Australian blogger around the clock.
5. A gunman opened fire on a busy avenue in Toronto, killing a young woman and a young child, and injuring others in the Canadian city's Greektown district.
6. At least 74 people have died in wildfires in the Attica region around Athens, in Greece's worst fire disaster in more than a decade. The wildfires are the worst to hit Greece since 2007, when dozens of people were killed in the southern Peloponnese peninsula.
7. Along with things like plastic straws, shopping bags and water bottles, there are growing calls to get rid of single-use plastic. That fight is now coming to the music industry and its first target is shrink wrapping.
8. Humanity is devouring our planet’s resources in increasingly destructive volumes, according to a new study that reveals we have consumed a year’s worth of carbon, food, water, fibre, land and timber in a record 212 days.
9. Researchers around the globe are documenting how globalisation and urbanisation are changing the behaviour and evolution of animals. For example, in 1974 the owner of a Belgian zoo released 40 parakeets "because Brussels could use some more colour", and singlehandedly founded the country’s entire population, now numbering some 30,000 birds.
10. Britain will witness a spectacular and rare celestial spectacle this week, for it will be the longest-lasting total lunar eclipse of the 21st century.

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