Data

The French newspaper Le Monde originally made available the data of the Map of Forever Pollution. However, in July 2024, the National Centre for Scientific Research (Centre national pour la recherche scientifique, CNRS) made available an updated, improved version of the dataset, developed by our data journalist Luc Martinon.

You can download the dataset here.

It includes geolocation coordinates for each site additional information such as all available PFAS sampling values beyond the six PFAS displayed on the map.

In April 2024, the Project’s methodology was published in the form of an article in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Environmental Science & Technology.

The data is freely reusable, as long as you cite the Forever Pollution Project and this webpage, and inform us at horel[@]lemonde.fr.

For any questions about the data and the dataset, please contact lucmartinon[@]gmail.com and horel[@]lemonde.fr.

If you have used our data or reporting, please let us know so we can record the outcome here.