Leaders from Beryl-battered Caribbean say urgent climate financing needed

The leaders of small Caribbean island nations on Thursday said that financial damages wrought by Hurricane Beryl would run beyond their capacities and urged lenders to ease financing costs to address the worsening impacts of climate change.The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June to November, but Beryl, this season's first hurricane, was the earliest on record to surge to a Category 5, as human-caused climate change causes storms to intensify faster and stronger.An estimated 20,000 people lo