According to park officials, it’s because the sand is made of gypsum, a soft, white mineral that breaks down easily and dissolves in water. The park said their gypsum came from the floor of an ...

Clambering up gypsum sand dunes in White Sands National Park in New Mexico, I half expected to see Will Smith dragging an ...

Ten thousand years ago, as the last Ice Age was ending and temperatures rose, an enormous glacial lake in New Mexico’s Tularosa Basin dried up, revealing something unusual: bright-white gypsum sand.

Because gypsum ... sand. The entire dune field is a massive 275 square miles (by comparison, the second-largest gypsum dune field in the world, Cuatro Ciénegas in Mexico, is only 8 square miles).

In partnership with the Department of Defense, White Sands Missile Range has successfully taken action to preserve 60,000 acres of the Chupadera Mesa, ...

About 60,000 acres of state-owned land near White Sands will be protected from future development thanks to an agreement between the New Mexico Land Conservancy, the State Land Office and the U.S.

White Sands National Park is answering one of their most frequently asked questions. As part of this week’s edition of No ...