I happened upon a New York Times article titled This New Year, Resolve to Green Up Your News Feed, which recommended the climate news website Grist.

Highlighting climate solutions and climate justice, Grist works “to show that a just and sustainable future is within reach.” Even as it provides much-needed encouraging news—Indigenous people defending their land and fighting for climate justice, for instance, or a new insurance model for flood-prone communities—this site’s reporting pulls no punches in revealing underreported bad news or efforts toward sustainability that just aren’t panning out.

When I skimmed Grist, a report titled Three-quarters of the world’s land is drying out, ‘redefining life on Earth’ caught my eye:

New research has found global warming has made 77 percent of the Earth’s land drier over the past three decades while rapidly increasing the proportion of excessively salty soils.

Under the business-as-usual emissions scenario, sub-Saharan Africa could lose as much as 22 percent of its current crop production capacity by 2050. The production of staple food crops grown in regions highly susceptible to aridity, such as soybeans, wheat, and rice, could plummet worldwide as well.

Well, it truly does not pull any punches, does it?