Under Our Feet Season 2 Announced

The second season of Under Our Feet will explore how our bodies themselves are inextricably linked to the ground beneath our feet: through the water that comes out of our tap. Grounded in the true story of Peshtigo, Wisconsin, this season uses the ongoing PFAS ‘forever chemical’ crisis as a way to show how inseparable our lives are from the Earth system.

In this series you’ll discover:

• What PFAS are and how we use them all around us everyday

• The lab accident that led to the discovery of PFAS

• How Teflon was used in the Manhattan Project

• The science of what makes PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ so sticky (and so slippery)

• Why PFAS are so harmful to human health

• The engineering problem of designing landfills full of PFAS products

• The physics and chemistry of groundwater flow and contamination

• First-person stories of acute contamination

Listen to the trailer here, and listen to full episodes wherever you get your podcasts.