A pollster describes how the industry's shift from landline to web-based surveys has made polling less reliable and more vulnerable to manipulation. The move from random sampling to recruited online panels requires pollsters to make demographic assumptions that can dramatically skew results, and the field has become plagued by fraudulent polls and fabricated data.
Operation Migration was a nonprofit organization that used ultralight aircraft to teach migration routes to endangered whooping cranes. Founded in 1994 in Canada and 1999 in the USA, it helped establish a reintroduced eastern population of whooping cranes, which numbered 81 individuals by 2021, supplementing the naturally occurring wild population of 506 birds. The program ended in 2016 after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service concluded that human intervention had impaired the cranes' ability to develop essential parenting skills.
Sheboygan, Wisconsin is canceling its contract with Flock Safety after discovering the company attempted to sell the city traffic data collected by Sheboygan's own cameras without disclosure. The revelation compounds nationwide concerns about Flock officers misusing data for personal purposes, prompting both Sheboygan and neighboring Kenosha to abandon Flock in favor of competing systems.