About Lupus. Lupus is an autoimmune disease that can affect various parts of the body, including the skin, joints, heart, lungs, blood, kidneys, and brain.Normally, the body's immune system makes proteins called antibodies to protect the body against viruses, bacteria, and other foreign materials.bout Lupus. Lupus is an autoimmune disease that can affect various parts of the body, including the skin, joints, heart, lungs, blood, kidneys, and brain.
The source document for this Digest states: Biodiversity change is caused by a range of drivers. A driver is any natural or human-induced factor that directly or indirectly causes a change in an ecosystem. A direct driver unequivocally influences ecosystem processes. An indirect driver operates more diffusely, by altering one or more direct drivers. Important direct drivers affecting biodiversity are habitat change, climate change, invasive species, overexploitation, and pollution (CF4, C3, C4.3, S7). No single measure or indicator represents the totality of the various drivers.
Australia's Great Barrier Reef is rapidly losing its coral, to the point that UNESCO may soon place the natural wonder on its in danger list. Climate change is one culprit, but so is the country's booming extraction industry.Environmentalists warn that time is running out for the reef.ustralian scientists have calculated that the Great Barrier Reef, the earth's largest living organism, has lost half of its coral in the last 27 years, and coral death is only accelerating. One reason is that Australia feels the effects of climate change earlier and more strongly than elsewhere.