US agency removes climate crisis facts from portal: Reports

WASHINGTON: The US federal agency tasked with protecting the environment has deleted facts from its website about how human activity drives climate change, media outlets reported on Tuesday.

- Agencies

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) tweaked its pages to focus on the “natural processes” driving climate change — like volcano eruptions and variation in solar activity — in October, the Washington Post reported.

A webpage titled “Causes of Climate Change” and another that tracks global warming impacts in the US were also altered, the New York Times reported.

And a page describing rising seas and shrinking Arctic ice — both key indicators of a changing climate — was also deleted, the Post reported.