Or the transformation may take some time and be more gently, with an increasingly hot and cloudy atmosphere able to shelter microbial life for some time.

With가 어디까지 연결된건가요?
cloudy?

그리고요
This year somewhere between three and a hundred species will vanish.

에서 between이 전치사아닌가여?
어떻게 전명구가 주어가되죠?