Why Rescue Systems Should Be Available to Every Country

In Türkiye and Georgia, extreme downpours flooded coastal cities, paralyzing traffic along coastal highways and at airports, while in Sochi, over 50 mm of rain fell in just one hour, turning central streets into raging torrents. In Brazil, flooding in the Ribeira Valley inundated more than 11 million banana trees and cut off entire municipalities from the outside world, claiming seven lives.

In Vietnam, prolonged monsoon rains raised river levels to critical marks, and a landslide in Phu Tho province buried a residential house, crushing three sleeping people beneath the soil. Smoke from Indonesian forest fires blanketed four countries at once and triggered hundreds of thousands of respiratory illnesses. On the Chinese island of Hainan, the daily rainfall record reached 672 mm, leaving cities without water and electricity supply.

Waves of extreme precipitation, large-scale flooding, and transboundary smog across different continents formed a single chain of energy redistribution — this is a breakdown of the main climate events from September 14 to September 20, 2026.

00:00 Introduction
00:21 Türkiye, Georgia, and Russia: extreme downpours on the Black Sea coast
03:03 Brazil: flooding in the Ribeira Valley, agricultural damage, and casualties
05:30 Indonesia: forest fires, respiratory crisis, and transboundary smog
07:15 Vietnam: monsoon downpours, flooding, and deadly landslides
09:08 China: record rainfall on Hainan and preventive evacuation during Sichuan landslide
11:45 Conclusions: rising landslide risk and the importance of international monitoring

Recent statistics show a steady increase in the number of deadly landslides: while 2024 set a record for the number of such events, in 2025 the death toll exceeded 5,000, and 2026 has continued this alarming trend. Intense and prolonged precipitation remains the primary trigger, increasing pore water pressure in the soil and reducing slope stability. Protective structures designed for past climate norms prove insufficient under these new conditions.

Modern forecasting systems combine satellite observations with geological maps and historical event data, making it possible to identify the most vulnerable slopes and plan preventive evacuations. However, the effectiveness of such technologies should not depend on a nation's economic capacity. Access to satellite data, predictive models, and technical support must become part of a shared international protection system, because wherever a tool capable of detecting a threat in advance exists, a country's resources should not determine whether its population receives that protection.

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