[I hate it when they do that]: Cyclones also fell rainforests of the ocean

TROPICAL cyclone Yasi not only felled vast numbers of trees in some of Australia's most spectacular and precious rainforest, but its might will have been felt underwater, too.

Yasi will almost certainly have left a trail of destruction across a section of the Great Barrier Reef, hundreds of kilometres long.
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The Great Barrier Reef has adapted to deal with the effects of cyclones and fierce storms - along its entire 2300 kilometres length there have always been areas recovering from some kind of disturbance or another, creating a mosaic of healthy and damaged reef.

But scientists fear that as the grip of climate change tightens, the frequency and intensity of the disturbances will increase, leaving the reef too little time to recuperate between disasters.

Not only do these kinds of storms affect coral and the entire marine environment, but there are also indirect disastrous consequences that scientists are only just beginning to understand.