This edition of Mint's ‘Climate Change and You’ newsletter discusses the coevolution of primates and fleshy fruits, the floods in Himachal Pradesh and Texas, and some games with a green bent.

Warming ocean temperatures and warmer air mean there’s more water vapor in the atmosphere to fuel extreme downpours like those that struck Texas during the July 4 weekend.

The “extreme precipitation” that occurred in all three places is becoming increasingly common and more intense due toclimate change, according to experts.“These are roughly one-in-1,000-year events, [and] would be extremely rare in the absence of human-caused warming,

Bill Nye claims climate change has worsened Texas flooding disasters, arguing that the U.S. government needs to take climate change more seriously.

CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten said on Thursday that Americans are not too concerned about climate change or about

Researchers agree that climate change has made torrential downpours more frequent—but the science gets murky when examining how strong the link is between an extreme event and climate change.

President Trump and Gov. Abbott have downplayed the link between extreme weather and climate change. Scientists say the warming climate is making storms worse.

At least 119 are dead and over 170 people are still missing after the catastrophic flooding in Texas. NBC News’ Jay Gray and The Kerry County Lead Editor and Publisher Louis Amestoy share the latest updates from Kerrville,

Going back through U.S. weather station records dating to 1955, Kunkel found that rain over the past 20 years has become more intense in the eastern two-thirds of the country, including the southern Great Plains, where Texas is located. Intensities have remained the same or declined in the West and southwest.