We Traced the Forever Chemicals Getting Into Ocean Ecosystems – the Conversation

Biscayne Bay (by Shaun Wolfe, National Park Service, public domain).

PFAS, the “forever chemicals” that have been raising health concerns across the country, are not just a problem in drinking water. As these chemicals leach out of failing septic systems and landfills and wash off airport runways and farm fields, they can end up in streams that ultimately discharge into ocean ecosystems where fish, dolphins, manatees, sharks and other marine species live…