US agency wipes climate change facts from website: reports

Washington, United States: The US federal agency tasked with protecting the environment has deleted facts from its website about how human activity dr...

Washington, United States: 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 Tuesday.

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.

President Donald Trump regularly rails against wind power and sustainable energy, calling for more drilling on US lands, and has slashed research and development to track and mitigate the effects of climate change.