Record ocean temperatures and an intense La Nina weather pattern have helped spawn one of the most powerful cyclones in Australia but whether there's a direct climate change link is less clear.

BRISBANE, Queensland, Australia, February 3, 2011 (ENS) – Cyclone Yasi, a Category 5 storm packing winds of up to 285 kph (177 mph), roared across north Queensland Wednesday night, smashing buildings ...

NASA’s Aqua satellite captured visible and infrared imagery of powerful Cyclone Yasi as it was making landfall in Queensland. The center of the monster cyclone Yasi made landfall on Australia’s ...

Australia’s sugarcane crop has suffered devastation as farmers venture out to survey their properties in the wake of category five Cyclone Yasi, whose destructive eye broke land at Mission Beach and ...

Cyclones are the Antipodean equivalent of the Hurricane (or Asian 'Typhoon'). Cyclone Yasi was rated Catagory 3 yesterday, with an expectation of reaching category 4. Today it was upgraded to 'low ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Cyclone Yasi may have destroyed half the sugar cane crop in Australia's key cane growing districts in Queensland, representing about 15 percent of the country's crop, a key industry ...

Tropical Storm Anthony made landfall in Queensland, Australia this past weekend, and now the residents are watching a larger, more powerful cyclone headed their way. NASA's Terra satellite captured a ...

NASA image acquired Feb. 1, 2011. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics.

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