Former Google CEO Will Fund Boat Drones to Explore Rough Antarctic Waters

A foundation created by Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, will fund a project to send drone boats out into the rough ocean around Antarctica to collect data that could help solve a crucial climate puzzle. The project is part of a suite of funding announced today from Schmidt Sciences, which Schmidt and his wife Wendy created to focus on projects tackling research into the global carbon cycle. It will spend $45 million over the next five years to fund these projects, which includes the Antarctic research.

“The ocean provides this really critical climate regulation service to all of us, and yet we don’t understand it as well as

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