How to Use permafrost in a Sentence

permafrost

noun
  • As the ground warms, ice in the permafrost melts, and the soil thaws.
    — Alessio Perrone, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2023
  • And there, too, large swaths of permafrost are at risk of melting.
    — Emily Schwing, Scientific American, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Melting of the permafrost was mentioned no less than four times.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 15 Jan. 2018
  • The 30-year project would require drilling on top of permafrost.
    — Katy Stech Ferek and Timothy Puko, WSJ, 9 July 2022
  • To the south are rolling permafrost landforms crisscrossed with rivers and creeks.
    — Diane Selkirk, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 July 2022
  • Arctic permafrost holds a third of all the carbon that’s stored in the world’s soils.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 7 Apr. 2021
  • New pathogens emerge out of the melting permafrost, killing millions.
    — Jenny Offill, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
  • Zhùr has been frozen in permafrost for thousands of years, sealed away from air and moisture.
    — Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2020
  • In his telling, the permafrost plots gave him an advantage that couldn’t have been planned.
    — Rachel Barr, Big Think, 29 Jan. 2026
  • When permafrost thaws, the ice that's trapped in the ground turns into water and drains away.
    — Rebecca Hersher, NPR, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Study the glaciers, the permafrost, the atmosphere, the oceans.
    — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
  • The virus was found along with six others in the Siberian permafrost.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The teeth had been buried for over a million years in the Siberian permafrost.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2021
  • Climate change is a large reason why the permafrost is melting.
    — Author: Greg Kim, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Jan. 2021
  • Across the countryside, the effect of permafrost is plain to see.
    — Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2021
  • The permafrost beneath their village, once frozen year-round, has begun to thaw.
    — Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 16 May 2024
  • The creek is fed from the pure ice of shrunken glaciers above and ancient permafrost in the ground below.
    — Jon Waterman, Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2024
  • The hot weather has caused permafrost to melt and fueled a growing number of fires.
    — Star Tribune, 22 July 2021
  • There’s tremendous amounts of carbon in permafrost that has been stored for many thousands of years, if not longer.
    — Julia Rosen, latimes.com, 18 June 2019
  • The permafrost in its soil has trapped carbon dioxide and methane for thousands of years.
    — Andrew Freedman, Axios, 11 Dec. 2024
  • But the supports for the pipeline are anchored in permafrost, which is now melting.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2005
  • Like the kitten, both were also found in the Siberian permafrost.
    — Charna Flam, People.com, 19 Nov. 2024
  • The baby mammoth was found frozen in permafrost in the Klondike gold fields in the Yukon.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 27 June 2022
  • The study sites included a sulfidic spring, a briny mine, an acidic lake and river, and permafrost.
    — Brianne Palmer, Scientific American, 21 July 2021
  • Vishnivetskaya is not sure whether the nematodes her team pulled from the permafrost passed the epochs in dauer stage.
    — Daniel Ackerman, Anchorage Daily News, 8 July 2019
  • In places, the land itself is wobbly and out of joint, as melting permafrost opens large slump pits and gullies.
    — Bathsheba Demuth, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Melting permafrost can weaken peaks.
    — Molly Hunter, NBC news, 19 Aug. 2025
  • About half of Russia, the world’s largest country, is covered with permafrost.
    — Yuliya Fedorinova, Bloomberg.com, 5 June 2020
  • The scientists argue that these fault lines allow for gas and heat to move up from below the permafrost.
    — New Atlas, 21 Sep. 2025
  • As the surrounding landscape shifts from the freezing and thawing of permafrost, the lake can drain.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, National Geographic, 23 Sep. 2020

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