Permafrost in a sentence

Already the Alaska Highway, built atop permafrost that was never expected to go away, has started buckling as the permafrost melts.

Over land, continuous permafrost is shown in a dark pink while discontinuous permafrost is shown in a lighter shade of pink.

Antarctica is one of the few places on Earth with permafrost similar to areas on Mars.

Experts have shown that the active layer of permafrost—the upper one or two meters that thaws and re-freezes seasonally—is expanding with the warming climate.

Furthermore, a disconcerting concept is the possibility of “zombie” viruses, which have been preserved in permafrost or other frozen environments for centuries, being released as a result of climate change.

Other changes researchers observed are that squirrels are delaying the timing and duration of heat production during hibernation in response to slower freezing of the permafrost.

Plan seeks to address needs related to increased flooding, wildfires, melting permafrost and other climate-relate risks.

Southeast Alaska is a global hotspot for another type of landslide: those by thaw of high-altitude permafrost, melt of glaciers that buttress bases of mountains or a combination of those forces.

Those tipping points are the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, the mass die-off of warm-water coral reefs, the thawing of Arctic permafrost, and the collapse of the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre circulation.

Wedges of ice, features of the ice-rich permafrost that underlies Utqiagvik, are exposed on Aug. 2 on an eroding beach bluff.

A 35,000-year-old saber-toothed cub has been discovered in the permafrost of Siberia.

An ancient wolf with its fearsome teeth intact has been uncovered from the permafrost in Siberia after 44,000 years.

As permafrost continues to thaw, the balance of greenhouse gases will likely shift further.

Because the CO2-heat relationship is linear, a deviation from it could indicate a new source of emissions, such as methane release from permafrost thawing, Jarvis and Forster write.

Conversely, slowing ocean currents and thawing permafrost are examples of subtle but profound climatic alterations to some of the most critical ecological functions that sustain a habitable Earth.

Couple that with the release of methane from the melting permafrost and the drill baby drill.

Globally, permafrost loss is comparable to the ice loss in Antarctica, with 150 billion tonnes of water melting annually.

In London, I'd travel miles to Congolese shops to excavate bags of attiéké from the permafrost at the bottom of a chest freezer, stockpiling it for dinner guests I could evangelise.

Jaden was part of the team that Mr. Dillon, 69, had created to measure the retreating permafrost.

Mask emerging from permafrost at the Nunalleq Archaeological Site.