An Iowa landlord who said he lost roughly $700,000 in what he described as a Ponzi scheme has failed to overturn a $351,446 divorce payment to his former wife. The Iowa Court of Appeals upheld the award, rejecting his argument that much of the property at issue had been his before the marriage and should…

Hagopian went to court after the trees were not removed and his money was not returned. (AI image) A disagreement between two neighbours in Michigan over trees that threatened a barn has ended with an appeals court ruling against the homeowner who wanted them removed. Seth Merle and Richard Hagopian had agreed to pay $2,000…

The Southern North Sea Marine Protected Area (MPA), designated to safeguard marine wildlife, has recorded the highest level of bottom-trawling activity among the UK’s offshore protected sites. Now, in an unusual attempt to protect its marine biodiversity, Greenpeace activists have dropped nine giant limestone boulders onto the seabed, creating what the organisation describes as an…