When Drew Barrymore implored us to get out and run in the rain whenever we get a chance, she left out one important disclaimer: Keep your mouth shut. According to a new study, rain in almost every part of the world is now so full of toxic chemicals that it’s unsafe to drink.
Per the study published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, dangerous pollutants in rainwater called PFAS, also referred to as “forever chemicals,” exceed global guidelines and have become so widespread that we might have crossed some sort of planetary boundary we can’t turn back from. In fact, the situation is so bad that one of the study’s researchers noted that PFAS exceeded EPA limits in places as remote as Antarctica and the Tibetan plateau, per Vice.
