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Top 10 features of 2011

Natural disasters and Australian icons dominated your favourite features of 2011.

These cyclones caused the highest fatalities or most damage to infrastructure in the history of Australia.

A new model can predict dry spells, which could provide authorities with advanced warning of impending droughts.

Sporadic heavy rains bring a slow tide of change to parched lands in the Murray-Darling basin.

For the first time, scientists have found a link between climatic events and the movement of tectonic plates.

Karratha has been hit by a mini-tornado in the wake of Tropical Cyclone Carlos.

Ecologist Dr Matt Prescott describes how native plants can be harbingers for extreme weather events.

Endangered cassowaries are struggling to find food in the wake of last week’s Cyclone Yasi.

Hang on to your hats! Here’s our rundown of some truly monumental cyclones, hurricanes and typhoons.

Because there were no gauges where Cyclone Yasi made landfall, there are no direct measures of its strength.