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New rules to keep mercury from Calif. landfills

New California rules will require the makers of new thermostats to do a better job of keeping old ones containing the neurotoxin mercury out of landfills. Full story

Freeze Warning in effect Tuesday

A Freeze Warning in effect for Hampden and eastern Hampshire counties from 2 a.m. through 8 a.m. Tuesday. Full story

News Summary: US monitors Ford vans for rust

WIDER PROBLEM?: U.S. auto safety regulators are monitoring about 100,000 Ford and Mercury minivans that were not covered by a recall issued earlier this year for rust problems. Full story

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NASA Spacecraft Makes 1st Complete Map of Planet Mercury

U.N. clinches global deal on cutting mercury emissions

Pediatricians call to keep thimerosal in vaccines

Mercury's Water Ice Bodes Well for Alien Life Search

Mercury Photos Reveal Strange 'Pie Crust' Surface

Tycho Brahe died from pee, not poison

Mercury Craters Look Like Cookie Monster in NASA Photo

Mercury surface resembles rare meteorites

Tomb of China's first emperor still sealed

Let the moon guide you to elusive Mercury

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TO ACCOMPANY FEATURE ENVIRONMENT MERCURY.
TO ACCOMPANY FEATURE ENVIRONMENT MERCURY.

A general view of Rangeley Lake, which is being monitored for mercury levels, in Rangeley, Maine in this file photo taken August 23, 2005. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Radar image of Mercury's north polar region is shown superposed on a mosaic of Mercury MESSENGER images of the same area
Radar image of Mercury's north polar region is shown superposed on a mosaic of Mercury MESSENGER images
Image from MESSENGER spacecraft of craters on the surface of Mercury
Image from MESSENGER spacecraft of craters on the surface of Mercury

Image from MESSENGER spacecraft of craters on the surface of Mercury