The Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) organizes World Water Week every year, both online and in person in Stockholm, focusing on one theme to set and reflect the global agenda. The theme of World Water Week 2025 is ‘Water for Climate Action’, recognising the pivotal role of water in global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to build resilience safeguarding ecosystems and communities. World Water Week 2025 will focus on addressing the linked emergencies of climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation, emphasizing climate mitigation and climate adaptation and resilience.
This World Water Week, we would like to share three of the newest open access Life Sciences titles that welcome content relevant to this year’s theme.
Aquaculture Science and Management
Aquaculture Science and Management is a new open access peer-reviewed journal that aims to publish innovative research about the health, welfare and management of aquaculture species, the related food security considerations, and the industry’s relationship with the environment. The subjects covered include, but are not limited to, animal management and health, infectious and non-infectious diseases, genetics, reproduction, animal welfare and ethics, technology, policy and legislation, economics, food security and climate change. The journal welcomes content about cultured fish, shellfish and seaweed from around the world.
As a new open access journal, there are waivers available for accepted publications. Email aquaculturesciencemanagement@biomedcentral.com for more information.
Clean Oceans
Clean Oceans is a newly launched journal in the field of marine pollution encompassing novel approaches to the monitoring, control, removal, and prevention of waste; policy regulation and relevant frameworks; ecological impacts on climate and developments in implications for ocean acidification and conservation. Clean Oceans offers a uniquely interdisciplinary approach to understanding the impacts of chemical, biological, and physical pollutants on Earth’s oceans in pursuit of sustainable and responsible conservation.
As a new open access journal, there are waivers available for accepted publications. Email katy.saunders@springernature.com for more information.
Ocean Ecosystems
Ocean Ecosystems is a newly launched biological oceanography journal that aims to advance understanding of the complex systemic interplay between sea organisms and geology, chemistry and physics of oceans. This journal aims to support and cultivate progress towards a global commitment to sea sustainability, by developing scientific knowledge in the factors influencing life in the oceans, including climate change, pollution, ocean acidification, and other adverse impacts, and the biology of oceans affecting the oceanographic system, in terms of geochemistry, sediments, and the atmosphere, among the others.
As a new open access journal, there are waivers available for accepted publications. Email katy.saunders@springernature.com for more information.
These are just some of the open access journals that BMC offers for researchers to submit to. For a full list of the available journals, visit the full directory. To learn more about World Water Week, please visit the official website where you can find out more about this year’s programme.