http://www.aksuperstation.com/news/world RSS Feed for KIMO - News - World en-us Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:42:52 GMT http://www.aksuperstation.com/news/world/48785662.html A search is under way for a California pilot and passenger bound from Alaska to Canada. Pilot Gary Petigler and a passenger left at 4 p.m. Saturday from the Wolf Lake Airport near Palmer, Alaska, in a single-engine red and white Beechcraft. Their flight plan said they would be in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, by 8:30 p.m. Saturday, but they never showed up. Military and civil aircraft on both sides of the border are searching for the plane. http://www.aksuperstation.com/news/world/48620802.html Alaska merits a chapter in a new White House report on climate change report, which says temperatures in the state have climbed at twice the rate of the rest of the nation over the last half-century. The report, a compilation of current science, says annual temperatures have risen 3.4 degrees Fahrenheit in 50 years. Temperatures are projected to rise another 3.5 to 7 degrees by midcentury. The report says sea ice is melting, meaning shipping and resource extraction can expand. It says arctic ice could be gone during summers by the end of the century. http://www.aksuperstation.com/news/world/48176207.html A new White House report says harmful effects from global warming are already here and worsening. The report on the effects of climate change in the United States is the strongest and most urgently worded federal science study yet. It is being released by the White House science adviser and other top officials Tuesday afternoon. http://www.aksuperstation.com/news/world/49203652.html Gov. Sarah Palin is visiting U.S. troops in Kosovo. Palin's office had said the governor traveled Wednesday to see Alaska National Guard troops at an undisclosed overseas location. On Thursday, her office said she was visiting about 140 aviators with the Guard in Kosovo. Her spokeswoman, Sharon Leighow, says that for security purposes, the governor's office could not release Palin's destination until it was cleared by the Department of Defense. http://www.aksuperstation.com/news/world/49208902.html The Coast Guard is searching for a crew member of a container ship who was presumed to have fallen overboard into the North Pacific Ocean. Thirty-seven-year-old Yom Kai Bao Fang was reported missing early Friday morning from the 685-foot Sao Paulo. The search area is about 750 miles southwest of Alaska's Kodiak Island. http://www.aksuperstation.com/news/world/49206062.html Michael Jackson, the record-breaking, sensationally gifted "King of Pop" who emerged from childhood superstardom to become the entertainment world's most influential singer and dancer, and the tabloid world's most disturbing celebrity, has died. He was 50. A person with knowledge of the situation says Jackson died Thursday in a Los Angeles hospital. The person was not authorized to speak publicly and requested anonymity. http://www.aksuperstation.com/news/world/48550862.html The Supreme Court says convicts have no constitutional right to test DNA evidence in hopes of proving their innocence long after they were found guilty of a crime. The decision may have limited impact because the federal government and 47 states already have laws that allow convicts some access to genetic evidence. Testing has led to the exoneration of at least 232 people who had been found guilty of murder, rape and other violent crimes. http://www.aksuperstation.com/news/world/48265327.html U.S. Sen. Mark Begich is appealing to the Senate Armed Services Committee to maintain money to expand the ground-based missile defense system at Fort Greely. Begich on Tuesday told committee members in Washington, D.C., that missile defense is not just about North Korea but also about shooting down missiles launched by Iran.