Permafrost has 3 syllables.
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1. | One fifth of the earth's surface is covered by permafrost. | |
2. | One-fifth of the Earth's surface is covered by permafrost. | |
3. | Permafrost covers one-fifth of the Earth's surface. | |
4. | The permafrost is thawing. | |
5. | In Alaska, thawing of permafrost is responsible for severe damage to roads, buildings, and pipelines that will be costly to replace, especially in remote parts of Alaska. | |
6. | The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which measures the impact of global warming, predicts snow cover, glaciers and permafrost will continue to decline in almost all regions throughout this century. | |
7. | The melting permafrost was key factor in the ecological disaster. | |
8. | In a statement, scientists from North-Eastern Federal University (NEFU) in Yakutsk say reindeer herders on Great Lyakhovsky island in the New Siberian Islands archipelago discovered the carcass in the melting permafrost. | |
9. | Recent years have seen major discoveries of mammoths, woolly rhinos, ice age foal, several puppies and cave lion cubs as the permafrost inside the Arctic Circle melts. |