Global warming is diminishing the Chhota Shigri glacier in the Pir Panjal ranges of Himachal Pradesh at 0.67 meters a year, report French and Indian researchers.

The study, jointly supported by the Department of Science and Technology, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the Indo-French Centre for Promotion of Advanced Research, concluded that the glacier mass was thinning much more rapidly this century.

The researchers, including those from New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and glaciologists from France, told that the glacier was losing ice due to rising atmospheric temperatures.

The decrease is measured in terms of the ice flux, or the volume of ice passing a point per year.