The word "burning" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a verb to describe the action of a flame or fire. For example, you can say, "The sun was burning in the sky."
Economists generally agree that the key to addressing climate change is to raise the cost of burning fossil fuels, either directly, through a carbon tax, or indirectly, through a cap-and-trade program.
On the streets of Dublin the mood regarding the economy, the cuts and "Eurogeddon" seems to be a mixture of burning resentment tinged with resignation.
Bill Shorten said former New South Wales premier Neville Wran "kept the light on the hill burning brightly for Labor" as it was announced Wran will be given a state funeral.
Over the winter of 1937, Japanese troops in Nanjing unleashed a relentless onslaught of looting, burning, torture and murder.
For those who have been, we often do not have vaccination cards as they fled from burning villages," says the 27-year-old nurse.
No place was worst affected than Athens, from where televised images of riots, tear gas and burning buildings were shown around the world.
We are burning the established system down to the ground and forging a new future for business from the flames".
When she recalls her eldest sibling's engagement, she says, matter-of-factly: "We were worried because that was when they started burning down a lot of churches".
Maimuna Abdulmumini, 22, accused of burning her husband to death as a teenager, remains in prison today despite the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) Court of Justice ruling in June 2014 that the decision by a court in the north of the country to impose the death penalty was a violation of her fundamental rights.
Given that poorer countries are likely to be hit hardest by the impacts of climate change from burning all that coal, the idea that they so desperately need fossil fuels feels a little like selling cigarettes to lung cancer sufferers.
But with energy security and price now burning issues, locally generated power could become a practical alternative, provided the "cap" on local generation is lifted?
