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Accretion disks around young stars evolve in time with time scales of a few million years. We present here a study of the accretion properties of a sample of 35 stars in the ∼3 million-year-old star-forming region σ Ori. Of these, 31 are objects with evidence of disks, based on their IR excess emission. We use near-IR hydrogen recombination lines (Paγ) to measure their mass accretion rate. We find that the accretion rates are significant lower in σ Ori than in younger regions, such as ρ Oph, consistently with viscous disk evolution. The HeI 1.083µm line is detected (either in absorption or in emission) in 72% of the stars with disks, also providing evidence of accretion-powered activity in very low accretors, where other accretion indicators disappear.