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Colombia Sets Sight on 'Green Gold'

The World
December 28, 2012 · 2:00 PM EST
  • By Lisa Mullins
The World
Colombia is a hotspot of mercury pollution from small-scale gold mining. But it's also a testing ground for a new movement to reduce mercury pollution by paying small-scale miners more to use less of the toxic metal.
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