The state passed a few new laws in 2018 designed to facilitate more intentional burning.
They Know How to Prevent Megafires. Why Won’t Anybody Listen?|by Elizabeth Weil|August 28, 2020|ProPublica
After settlers forcibly removed Indigenous people from the land, their cultural burning practices were eventually replaced by policies of full-on fire suppression.
California and the Forest Service have a plan to prevent future catastrophic fires|Ula Chrobak|August 27, 2020|Popular Science
Each year, the burning of fossil fuels emits about 100 times more carbon dioxide than volcanoes emit — too much too fast for oceans and weathering to neutralize it, which is why our climate is warming and our oceans are acidifying.
How Earth’s Climate Changes Naturally (and Why Things Are Different Now)|Howard Lee|July 21, 2020|Quanta Magazine
The burning keeps trees from growing — and also burns up old plants, returning their nutrients to the soil, too.
Scientists Say: Prairie|Bethany Brookshire|July 13, 2020|Science News For Students
Most people know that the burning of fossil fuels spews a lot of this gas.
This ‘living’ concrete slurps up a greenhouse gas|Carolyn Wilke|May 6, 2020|Science News For Students
The correspondent does a stand-up next to a burning pile of heroin and gets a taste of its effect.
BBC Reporter Gets High On The Job|Jack Holmes, The Daily Beast Video|December 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
On his Instagram account (which has since been taken down), Brinsley made one reference to burning an American flag.
Alleged Cop Killer Ismaaiyl Brinsley Had a Death Wish|M.L. Nestel|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It reacts very readily with oxygen by burning smokelessly, with carbon dioxide and water as its byproducts.
Methane on Mars: Life or Just Gas?|Matthew R. Francis|December 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But burning, rioting, and looting are disgraceful—and they make for real-life victims we somehow never hear about.
It’s Time to Hold Protesters Accountable|Ron Christie|December 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Author James Patterson is calling out President Obama with a video of burning books.
James Patterson Goes Full ‘Fahrenheit 451’ With Burning Book Video|William O’Connor|November 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And the burning wood hissed in the eye, just as the red-hot iron hisses in the water when a man seeks to temper steel for a sword.
Myths and Legends of All Nations|Various
Although it was not yet dark a big camp fire was burning, made bright with pine cones and branches of pine.
The Camp Fire Girls at the End of the Trail|Margaret Vandercook
He felt a burning curiosity to rise and look out, but he restrained it and did not move.
The Candidate|Joseph Alexander Altsheler
Burning indignation at first fired his soul, and he resolved to punish Quintal.
The Lonely Island|R.M. Ballantyne
On seeking re-election in York, he declined to give any pledge on the burning question of the Clergy Reserves and was defeated.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2|Various
British Dictionary definitions for burning
burning
/ (ˈbɜːnɪŋ) /
adjective
intense; passionate
urgent; cruciala burning problem
noun
a form of heat treatment used to harden and finish ceramic materials or to prepare certain ores for further treatment by calcination
overheating of an alloy during heat treatment in which local fusion or excessive oxide formation and penetration occur, weakening the alloy
the heat treatment of particular kinds of gemstones to change their colour