"The effect of water sitting on the ice shelves can play a big role in the disintegration of those shelves," said Marco Tedesco, a glaciologist at Lamont-Doherty and coauthor of the study.
- Current economic downturn, lack of opportunities, likely disintegration of big pharma.
But for all the hand-wringing in Moscow about the breakdown in U.S.-Russian ties, there is less discussion of what many Americans would say is one of the biggest factors in that disintegration: the U.S. intelligence community's conclusion, which the Kremlin rejects, that Russian operatives interfered in the American election.
Montenegrin independence will confirm Serbia as the big loser of Yugoslavia's disintegration.
The Montenegrin government reluctantly agreed to the union on condition that yesterday's referendum would be held, and its new independence will confirm Serbia as the big loser from Yugoslavia's disintegration.
MACEDONIA suffers a lack of international attention partly because, unlike its neighbours, it emerged from Yugoslavia's disintegration without fighting a big war.
And in Child of the Big City, director Yevgeny Bauer foretells the disintegration of Russian society.
Nor will they be caused by the Eurozone disaster, a double-dip recession, the disintegration of institutions deemed "too big to fail," or government spending run amok.
If, as seems increasingly likely, its austerity programme halts or even reverses what is already the shakiest of recoveries, the prospect must be of either the biggest U-turn of all – or the disintegration of the coalition.
Holmes's production matches these shifts: sometimes rapt and sometimes ironic it shows both meltdown and hoedown, with bendy hats, big beards, much yelping in unison and tragic disintegration.
