How to Use permafrost in a Sentence

permafrost

noun
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  • As the ground warms, ice in the permafrost melts, and the soil thaws.
    — Alessio Perrone, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Study the glaciers, the permafrost, the atmosphere, the oceans.
    — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
  • The baby mammoth was found frozen in permafrost in the Klondike gold fields in the Yukon.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 27 June 2022
  • Arctic permafrost holds a third of all the carbon that’s stored in the world’s soils.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 7 Apr. 2021
  • The 30-year project would require drilling on top of permafrost.
    — Katy Stech Ferek and Timothy Puko, WSJ, 9 July 2022
  • The teeth had been buried for over a million years in the Siberian permafrost.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2021
  • And there, too, large swaths of permafrost are at risk of melting.
    — Emily Schwing, Scientific American, 13 Oct. 2021
  • The virus was found along with six others in the Siberian permafrost.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The researchers dug up permafrost and brought it back to Copenhagen to search for DNA.
    — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2022
  • To the south are rolling permafrost landforms crisscrossed with rivers and creeks.
    — Diane Selkirk, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 July 2022
  • Across the countryside, the effect of permafrost is plain to see.
    — Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2021
  • The Sakha Republic in Siberia is one of the coldest areas in the world and sits on top of permafrost.
    — Rachel Layne, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2021
  • The team found the organism in permafrost cores drilled 11.5 feet deep near the Alazeya River in Siberia.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 June 2021
  • The tubes are bored from 15 to 70 feet into the permafrost in areas where warming might cause it to thaw.
    — NBC News, 11 July 2021
  • Now the permafrost is only down to 3.5 inches, and the soil is muddier.
    — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Mar. 2022
  • The hot weather has caused permafrost to melt and fueled a growing number of fires.
    — Star Tribune, 22 July 2021
  • The study sites included a sulfidic spring, a briny mine, an acidic lake and river, and permafrost.
    — Brianne Palmer, Scientific American, 21 July 2021
  • Climate change is a large reason why the permafrost is melting.
    — Author: Greg Kim, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Jan. 2021
  • Its main goal is to recreate the Ice Age ecology, and slow the thawing of Arctic permafrost.
    — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Generally, the top layer of this permafrost thaws out in the heat of summer, then freezes again in the winter.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 4 Mar. 2024
  • To deal with the problem, ConocoPhillips has plans to install chillers to keep the permafrost frozen under its heavy equipment.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The announcement marks a detente after years of permafrost between Musk and the White House.
    — WIRED, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Wrigley has been lucky: below his farm, there was no permafrost to turn his land into cottage cheese.
    — Yasmin Tayag, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2022
  • The permafrost is thawing as the climate warms, leading to erosion and flooding.
    — Will McCarthy, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Loss of permafrost that was counted on to feed land basins has led to increasing drying.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The city is built on a continuous permafrost, meaning that a layer of frozen soil is present even in the summer.
    — Molly Enking, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Like peat, permafrost—a combination of earth and ice—is a carbon sink.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 18 May 2022
  • Methane explosions from the permafrost risk a tipping point in the Artic.
    — Felicia Jackson, Forbes, 24 June 2021
  • At the same time, thawing permafrost is a threat to infrastructure in Russia’s Far North.
    — Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Severe drought could fuel wildfires in the Amazon, while sky-high temperatures might speed the loss of glaciers and permafrost in Alaska.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 29 Feb. 2024

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