By Randi Rousseau Click here for updates on this story NEW ORLEANS (WDSU) -- A spirited LSU fan became one of the most viral ...

Mike, a fiberglass depiction of the LSU mascot, will roam the city searching for Tiger fans as long as his team is in the College World Series.

Its Very Being Is Tied to Religion “While best known for parties, costumes and beads, Mardi Gras has religious origins in the Catholic calendar as well as in pre-Christian pagan celebrations ...

In New Orleans for the Mardi Gras, I, surely, wasn’t ready for the mad ride and ceaseless exhilaration. Think 250 million beads being tossed around randomly.

Cheap plastic beads often end up in landfills and can clog up the city’s 100-year-old drainage system. That’s led to more calls to ditch them altogether.

BK MARDI GRAS BEADS WEB VIDEO. Hundreds of thousands of people travel to New Orleans each year for Carnival season. And some are looking for more sustainable ways to dispose of their beads.

Daily cleanup operation uncaught Mardi Gras beads dangle from tree limbs, wash into storm strains, pulled from aging New Orleans drainage system; green plastic. Skip Navigation.

But environmentalists are worried about the huge amount of nonbiodegradable plastic beads that wind up mixed in all the other Mardi Gras trash. It has led to movements to collect and reuse plastic ...

Why Mardi Gras beads are so toxic—and how a group of middle schoolers is trying to change that. ... “And I didn’t catch a single bead,” Benfield told Inside Climate News.

Mardi Gras Beads Cast a Plastic Shadow Causing Environmental Fallout. New Orleans, steeped in the vibrant tradition of Carnival season, is grappling with environmental concerns.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — It’s a beloved century-old Carnival season tradition in New Orleans — masked riders on lavish floats fling strings of colorful beads or other trinkets to parade watchers ...