Episode 5: PFAS in rain exceeds safe levels and its planetary boundary! A break down of the science with Ian Cousins, interviewed by Hans Peter Arp

ZeroPM's Ian Cousins and his colleagues recently published a paper that has been an absolute blockbuster. It has been picked up by every major news outlet, and within three weeks has been downloaded over 160 thousand times. The paper is called "Outside the Safe Operating Space of a New Planetary Boundary for PFAS".   The paper talks about how PFAS levels in rain, water and soils have exceeded safe levels fro the planet, and how their concentrations are slowly reversible. Now an issue though is that a lot of media have gotten some the science wrong, and there has been issues with that, so we felt worth doing a break down of the paper to clarify the science and some of the key points.

The blockbuster paper can is available open access here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.2c02765

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ZeroPM is a research and innovation project funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101036756.