Undergrad Yale researchers find plastic-eating fungus in the Amazon   New Haven, USA: There’s a course at Yale University in which undergraduates travel to the Amazon rain forest to collect fungi. One of them, however, which will be featured in a paper accepted by a scientific journal, might solve the problem of polyurethane building up in our landfills. The fungus basically eats the plastic and breaks it down into carbon. That’s just one discovery being studied in the Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory course taught by Professor Scott A. Strobel. “We take 15 undergraduates into...