Sweden's only mountaintop glacier has lost a further two meters in the last year, according to researchers at Stockholm University said.

It's been a bad few years for the Kebnekaise massif. It was relegated to the Nordic nation's second-highest peak in 2019 after a third of its glacier melted. 

Its official height has now fallen again, and the academics who know the mountain said it was the lowest measurement of its peak since record-keeping began in the 1940's. 

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They said climate change is to blame. 

"The decrease in the peak and the changed appearance of the drift can mainly be explained by rising air temperatures but also changing wind conditions, which affect where the snow accumulates in the winter," the university said in a statement announcing Kebnekaise's reduction. 

The Kebnekaise massif is located 150 km north of the Arctic Circle in the Scandinavian Mountains range, and is part of the Laponia World Heritage Site.

The mountain reached 2,118 meters in the mid-1990s.

It is now 2,094.6 meters high.