{"id":70,"date":"2026-11-04T06:52:35","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T06:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnmorefacts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/why-antarctica-counts-as-a-desert\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T06:52:35","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T06:52:35","slug":"why-antarctica-counts-as-a-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learnmorefacts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/why-antarctica-counts-as-a-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Antarctica counts as a desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deserts are about dryness, not heat, and the coldest continent is among the driest.<\/p>\n<h2>What makes a desert<\/h2>\n<p>Scientists define deserts by low precipitation, usually less than about 250 millimetres a year.<\/p>\n<h2>A frozen desert<\/h2>\n<p>Antarctica gets very little precipitation, especially in the interior, but it builds up over time as ice.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The coldest place on Earth is also one of the driest.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>A huge store of water<\/h2>\n<p>The ice sheets hold most of the world&#8217;s fresh water, which is why changes there matter to everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deserts are about dryness, not heat, and the coldest continent is among the driest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnmorefacts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnmorefacts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnmorefacts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnmorefacts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnmorefacts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/learnmorefacts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnmorefacts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnmorefacts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnmorefacts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}