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
• 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
• Still, there are stalks popping through the permafrost.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2019
• 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
• 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
• This far north, and during the summer, the sun was out 24 hours a day, but during the peak of the day, that permafrost tended to thaw out.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 6 July 2020
• In the summer of 2016, a heatwave washed over Europe, thawing permafrost in the north.
  — Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 2 Apr. 2020
• To reach pockets of coal, the drill passed through about a third of a mile of sandstone, mudstone, and hundreds of yards of permafrost.
  — Juliana Hanle, Scientific American, 18 Nov. 2019
• Now the permafrost is only down to 3.5 inches, and the soil is muddier.
  — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Mar. 2022
• On the way to the permafrost of the Alaskan tundra, eagle-eyed motorists may spot caribou, moose and grizzly bears along the road.
  — Teddy Brokaw, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2024
• This accelerate the melting of the Alaskan permafrost, the layer of ice and dirt that stays frozen year-round.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 July 2020
• 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
• As the surrounding landscape shifts from the freezing and thawing of permafrost, the lake can drain.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, National Geographic, 23 Sep. 2020
• When permafrost thaws, sea ice disappears, and wildfires rage in the north, the consequences extend to the rest of the world.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 23 June 2020
• 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 wolf’s carcass is one of many ancient remains to be found in the Siberian permafrost — an expanse of perennially frozen ground — in recent years.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 28 June 2024
• Several houses—prefab wood structures built on short stilts—are cracking as the land sinks and gets eroded, weakened by the melting of sea ice above and permafrost thaw below.
  — Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024