Mobile city workers shovel pounds of Mardi Gras beads into the back of a truck. [Photo: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News] Then an effort at cleanup begins. An army of city workers in neon vests a ...

Beads litter the streets in Mobile. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News Though he isn’t a native Louisianan, the ecologist has become an expert on the environmental impact of Mardi Gras.

Mobile's Mardi Gras tends to be calmer and more family-friendly ... I saw women lift their shirts for a string of beads there along with naked people running around the streets.

Mobile County Public Schools announced people have an opportunity to get a voucher for one dozen Krispy Kreme doughnuts when you donate a “bagful” of Mardi Gras beads to Evans Special School ...

So what is the meaning behind the beads at Mardi Gras ... settling around what we now call Mobile and New Orleans. Once called "Boeuf Gras," meaning, "fatted calf," the Mardi Gras season was ...

The beads. So many beads ... The first masked parading society, Cowbellian de Rakin, began in 1830 in Mobile. Mardi Gras quickly becomes part of your identity in Mobile and it’s built into ...

In places like New Orleans, Mobile and Pensacola ... where they dress up in costumes, hand out beads and enjoy a nice king cake or two. Mardi Gras simply means “Fat Tuesday.” ...

City workers in Mobile, Ala. shovel pounds of Mardi Gras beads into the back of a truck. This story was originally published by Inside Climate News. MOBILE, Ala. — The trees tell the tale.